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 | Reviews Reviews and criticisms of classic and contemporary literature, movies and art, including the occasional review of the slightly offbeat, fill this section. | |
| | | | | |  A Guilty Pleasure by Asa Butcher
'The Sound of Music', a cinematic world packed full of singing nuns, clothes tailored from curtains, Nazis, catchy tunes, vomit-inducing children and a long list of favourite things - there's even an intermission! | | | |  A Must Read: China Shakes the World by Valerie Sartor
In October 2006 James Kynge won the prestigious Financial Times | | | |  Romeo and Ethel the Pirate's Daughter by Asa Butcher
Some would say that 'Shakespeare in Love' was a Best Picture tragedy, while others would argue it was a comedy worthy of the seven statuettes. You are now wondering into which category my allegiance falls. | |
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| | |  Hollywood's Big Top by Asa Butcher
1950's US politics and my own personal disappointment aside, let's take a look at 'The Greatest Show on Earth', the film that did win the coveted Best Picture award. | | | |  Borgnine's brilliant butcher by Asa Butcher
I am now ready to fulfil my original plan of reviewing 'Marty', the sleeper hit of 1955 that gave Ernest Borgnine his first and only Academy Award. | | | |  Forget Disney's hyphenless Pooh by Asa Butcher
In honour of International Day for Children's Literature, I want to republish a review of two of my favourite books, Alan Alexander Milne's 'Winnie-the-Pooh' and 'The House at Pooh Corner'. | | | |  Coen, Coen, Gong! by Asa Butcher
Did I like 'No Country for Old Men'? Yes. Did I love it? No. Should it have won Best Picture? Not sure. Is it classic Coen brothers? Yes. Has it got the worst haircut since Sean Penn in 'Carlito's Way'? Definitely, yes. | | | |  Refreshing the cinematic palette by Asa Butcher
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences deemed 'You Can't Take It with You' to be the Best Picture of 1938 and awarded it so at the 11th Academy Awards, plus they bestowed Capra with his third and final Oscar for Best Director. | | | |  Behind The Iron Doors of Hell by The Ovi Team
Having had a marriage from hell and a chilling divorce in the notorious British secret family courts, Ivana Kelly stumbles across a hidden world of misogyny. WARNING: ARTICLE CONTENT MAY BE UPSETTING | | | |  Mills & Boon: A Man's Confession by Clint Wayne
Yes, my name is Clint and I am a Mills and Boon lover. I've tried to suppress my shameful obsession for more than 20 years. Can you imagine the embarrassment: a guy who reads love stories? | | | prev | | next | | |
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